Victoria Derby Winners

As the country’s oldest classic race and the richest event for three-year-olds, the Victoria Derby winners list reads like the who’s who of Australian racing greats.

Many of the country’s most famous and accomplished racehorses have won the Victoria Derby as three-year-olds and progressed onto record great track achievements such as winning the race that ‘stops the nation’, the Melbourne Cup.

The greatest Victoria Derby winner, as voted for by a panel of VRC experts for the race’s 150th anniversary in 2004, was the legendary Phar Lap who won the Derby in 1929.